6.9 Movie Night

Settle in for Movie Night! Aaron and Eric each picked movies that they argued had LDS or interesting religious themes. Do you agree or have other picks? Let us know on discord! Link to our Face in Hat discord server! https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh YouTube channel! Thanks Eric! https://www.youtube.com/@FaceinHat https://www.youtube.com/@FaceinHat/playlists Dialogue Podcast Network https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/ The Religious Affiliation of Director George Lucas https://web.archive.org/web/20050612235541/http://www.adherents.com/people/pl/George_Lucas.html But hey, there is an LDS connection to George Lucas! From the article: “Lucas eventually came to state that his religion was "Buddhist Methodist." Gary Kurtz, a Latter-day Saint who had studied Comparative Religion extensively in college and on his own, was pivotal in introducing Lucas to Eastern religions (particularly Buddhism) and Native American religion, and discussing with Lucas how best to improve "Star Wars" by giving it a believable but sufficiently universal religious underpinning. Kurtz was the producer of "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" and also did some work on the "Star Wars" screenplay.” Linked to from his wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas#Personal_life Contact (1997 American film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film) https://www.amazon.com/Contact-Jodie-Foster/dp/B001AH6ZWY Hercules (1997 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(1997_film) https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-ae19dd2f-a945-442b-a18e-d57fa8f5091f Eastern Orthodox and Divinization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinization_(Christian)#Eastern_Orthodox Relevant older Face in Hat episode, “5.2 Divinization and Deity”: https://faceinhat.podbean.com/e/52-divinization-and-deity/ The Tree of Life (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_(film) https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B005UKJX4E “Rituals themselves are actually very boring. They go on and on, beyond your secular tolerance” (The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth https://www.amazon.com/Power-Myth-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0385418868 Quoted in Why Myth?, by John Bonaduce https://www.jcf.org/post/why-myth Aphasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia Aphantasia (includes the apple chart for degree of mental visualization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia Eric may have been referring to this podcast: “The human brain is hardwired to recognize faces. But what if you can't?”, by Emily Kwong, Rachel Carlson, and Rebecca Ramirez https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/1198910315/face-blindness-prosopagnosia-memory-aphantasia-sight-imagination Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997, The Emmy Awards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM Wreck-it Ralph 1 and 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck-It_Ralph https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-0cde80b0-5085-447b-b65e-c81a713a90f0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Breaks_the_Internet https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-4f2c48ef-b3f9-4422-9feb-011a17ff2afb The Official Disney Princess Rules, Explained, by Micaela Pérez Vitale and Samuel Cormier https://movieweb.com/official-disney-princess-rules/ Navigating Mental Health Comedy with Conservative Parents, Taylor Tomlinson https://www.tiktok.com/@taylortomlinsoncomedy/video/7288425135990770990 Shanghai Express (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Express_(film) Coco (2017 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(2017_film) https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-ce1ccdca-f468-4960-b67c-026b01ba42ab Angels and Seerstones: A Latter Day Saint Folklore Podcast, by Christopher James Blythe and Christine Elyse Blythe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/angels-and-seerstones-a-latter-day-saint-folklore-podcast/id1693940296 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Princess_Kaguya_(film) https://www.amazon.com/Tale-Princess-Kaguya-English-Language/dp/B0817R94P8 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E. Park https://www.amazon.com/American-Zion-New-History-Mormonism/dp/1631498657